Honorary Canadians

Honorary Canadians

This room is dedicated to the artists who, while not born here, made a meaningful mark on Canadian music. Whether they came to record, perform, collaborate, or simply found inspiration on Canadian soil, these Honorary Canadians became part of the story. Some stayed briefly, others put down roots—but all contributed to the cultural fabric in unique ways. From one-off sessions to lasting legacies, this is a salute to the outsiders who felt right at home in Canada.

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Buddy Knox Hula Love ST
Ellen McIlwaine Love and Devotion Ellen McIlwaine
Jonathan Edwards Evangelina Sailboat
Country Mcdonald Joe* The March Of The Dead War War War
Ernie* Smith Who I Am To Behold Jah
Ellen McIlwaine Never Tell Your Mother She's Out of Tune Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Gospel Medley: Swing Low Chariot; Amen; Michael Row Your Boat Ashore; He's Got the Whole World in His Hands Amist the Black Eyes
Priscilla* Rollins Why Can't I touch You Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Aarons And Ackley* N.F.S. You And I
Priscilla* Rollins Feel So Good Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Priscilla* Rollins Softer Moments Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* You Belong to Me You Belong to Me b/w Respect (picture sleeve)
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Halya Несе Галя Воду Ukrainian Pops
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Polissian Polka 'Mazury' Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Jack Holland I'll Pick Her Up The Eyes of a Dreamer
Oscar* McLollie Love Will Get You ST
Buddy Knox Mary Lou ST
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* A Hanging Apple Висить Ябко Ukrainian Pops
Jonathan Edwards Sailboat Sailboat
Ursa Major* Liberty and Justice ST
Jack Holland Waco The Eyes of a Dreamer
Buddy Knox Rock-a-Billy Walk ST
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Black Brows Dark Brown Eyes Ukrainian Pops
Nelson* Riddle Peace River British Columbia Suite
Ernie* Smith Everything Crash Skareggae
Oscar* McLollie Help Me Make It Through the Night ST
Ernie* Smith Ska Medley: Jamaica Ska; Humpty Dumpty; A Little More Oil; Six And Seven Books; Oh Manny Oh Skareggae
Aarons And Ackley* Almost Five O'Clock You And I
Doc Holiday* Canadian State of Mind Canadian State of Mind b/w Canadian State of Mind
Yukon* Nova Scotia Nova Scotia b/w Genius
Aarons And Ackley* Bonnie Blue You And I
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* King of the Cops I'm a Song
Ellen McIlwaine Isn't That So Ellen McIlwaine
David Amram The Mountain Song Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Bukovynian Dance Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Country Mcdonald Joe* The Call War War War
Priscilla* Rollins Sweet Inspiration Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Country Mcdonald Joe* The Munition Maker War War War
Oscar* McLollie The Way You Do the Things You Do ST
Ellen McIlwaine Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven (But Nobody Wants to Die) We the People
Priscilla* Rollins There Goes My Baby Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Ellen McIlwaine The Last Good Man in My Life Ellen McIlwaine
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Green Rye Ukrainian Pops
Ellen McIlwaine Wade in the Water Honky Tonk Angel
Ellen McIlwaine Farther Along Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Theme For the Countless And I Love Her
Ron Richardson Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental) Ooh Wee Babe // Ooh Wee Babe (instrumental)
Jonathan Edwards Girl from the Canyon Sailboat
Nelson* Riddle Vancouver Nights British Columbia Suite
David Amram Greasy Spoon Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Joe* Glazer The Farmer is the Man A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Ellen McIlwaine The Letter Fear Itself
Ellen McIlwaine Cure My Blues Everybody Needs It
Albert Jones* She Lost Her Faith The Facts of Life
Buddy Knox Somebody Touched Me ST (mono)
Ellen McIlwaine Steal Him Away Ellen McIlwaine
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Moolit Night Ніч Яка Місячна Ukrainian Pops
Ellen McIlwaine Ode to Billie Joe Honky Tonk Angel
Ellen McIlwaine Ain't No Two Ways To It (It's Love) We the People
Ellen McIlwaine It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Honky Tonk Angel
Happy Dolls Shake Your Booty Show Album No. 1
Ursa Major* Lay Me Down ST
Matt Lucas* Vibrator Blues Matt Gets Blue
Aarons And Ackley* Devil Song ST
Ellen McIlwaine Farther Along We the People
Zambonis* Mind Like a Playgroup To Bleed Black and Gold
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Jakiv Came to Visit Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Buddy Knox Swingin' Daddy ST (mono)
Buddy Knox Don't Make Me Cry ST
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Kozak Dance Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Buddy Knox Storm Clouds ST (mono)
Oscar* McLollie Girl of Mine ST
Ernie* Smith Oh But If I Skareggae
Tony McManus The Maids of Mitchelstown The Maker's Mark (The Dream Guitar Sessions)
Buddy Knox I Ain't Sharin' Sharon ST (mono)
Sidewinders Time For Loving Flatfoot Hustlin'
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* I'm a Song (Reprise) I'm a Song
Sidewinders A Voyage Flatfoot Hustlin'
Oscar* McLollie Buried Alive ST
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Am I Blue And I Love Her
Alpha Centauri You Shot Me Down ST
Bluebird* Country Boy Blues Country Boy Blues b/w A Good Thing Lost
Buddy Knox Party Doll ST
Ellen McIlwaine For Suki Fear Itself
Nelson* Riddle Government House British Columbia Suite
Ernie* Smith Top Rankin Skankin To Behold Jah
Ellen McIlwaine Underground River We the People
Aarons And Ackley* Swanee Song ST
Loni Gamble Circles ST
Ellen McIlwaine Bow'd Up Fear Itself
Ernie* Smith Freedom To Behold Jah
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Reapers Harvest Ukrainian Pops
Buddy Knox Maybelline ST
Jonathan Edwards Carolina Caroline Sailboat
Zambonis* To Bleed Black and Gold (demo) To Bleed Black and Gold
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Good Time Blues Shirley Lewis Show Band
Albert Jones* You Just Can't Turn Me Loose The Facts of Life
Ernie* Smith Bend Down Low Skareggae
Ellen McIlwaine Mossy Dream Fear Itself
Oscar* McLollie Chilliwack Valley B.C. (Oscar McLollie) ST

FEATURED

The Revelaires* - You're So Wrong b/w She Wears My Ring

Detroit, Michigan, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

The Revelaires* - Great Pretender b/w Cab Driver

Detroit, Michigan, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Matt Lucas* - Matt Gets Blue

Memphis, Tennessee, USA → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Ursa Major* - ST

New York, New York, U.S.A.

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Ellen McIlwaine

Nashville, Tennessee, 🇺🇸 → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel

Nashville, Tennessee, 🇺🇸 → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Everybody Needs It

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - We the People

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Fear Itself

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Country Mcdonald Joe* - War War War

Washington, DC, USA

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - Amist the Black Eyes

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - You Belong to Me b/w Respect (picture sleeve)

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - Shirley Lewis Show Band

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* - I'm a Song

Birmingham, England, UK→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Cal* Bostic - Introducing...

Anniston, Alabama, 🇺🇸→Port Arthur, Ontario, 🇨🇦→Erie, Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Aarons And Ackley* - ST

Portland, Oregon, 🇺🇸 (Jim Ackley); Cleveland, Ohio, 🇺🇸 (Chuck Aarons) - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Matt Lucas* - The Old Man b/w I'm Movin' On

Memphis, Tennessee, USA → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Tommy Makem - Vancouver b/w Better Times

Keady, County Armagh, Northern Ireland → Dover, New Hampshire, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Dover, New Hampshire, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Oscar* McLollie - ST

Caldwell County, Louisiana → Los Angeles, California, 🇺🇸 → Chilliwack, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Oakland, California, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Oscar* McLollie - Chilliwack Valley b/w She's a Child

Caldwell County, Louisiana → Los Angeles, California, 🇺🇸 → Chilliwack, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Oakland, California, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Oscar* McLollie - So Pleasing Loving You b/w As Long As You Care at All

Caldwell County, Louisiana → Los Angeles, California, 🇺🇸 → Chilliwack, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Oakland, California, 🇺🇸

David Amram - Summer Nights, Winter Rain

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸*

FEATURED

Bluebird* - Country Boy Blues b/w A Good Thing Lost

Mercer Island, Washington, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Loni Gamble - ST

Philadelphia, 🇺🇸 - Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

Dave Gordon & Kay* - I Love That Hockey Team b/w The Fiddler's Widow

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

FEATURED

Albert Jones* - The Facts of Life

Gary, Indiana, 🇺🇸 - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Alpha Centauri - ST

Priscilla* Rollins - Lover's Choice Vol. 1

Nassau, Bahamas - Toronto, Ontario

Eddie* Murray - Montreal, Canada Blues b/w Stepping High Dance

You're So Wrong b/w She Wears My Ring

Great Pretender b/w Cab Driver

The Revelaires (3)

The Revelaires (2)

The Revelaires

The Revelaires You're So Wrong (1)

The Revelaires Great Pre (1)

Matt Gets Blue

ST

Ursa Major - ST Side 2

Ursa Major - ST Side 1

Ursa Major - ST BACK

Ellen McIlwaine

Honky Tonk Angel

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel LABEL 02

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel LABEL 01

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel BACK

Ellen McIlwaine

Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years

Everybody Needs It

We the People

Fear Itself

Ellen McIlwaine - Fear Itself (6)

Ellen McIlwaine - Fear Itself (5)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (8)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (7)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (6)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (4)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (3)

Ellen McIlwaine - Everybody Needs It (3)

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